REKER

Hey guys, I plan on taking a week long trip to Colorado this winter. For those who have been/live there, which resort is your favorite?

Flick Montana

Steamboat springs has a lot to offer in my opinion. It's great for stuff aside from snowboarding, too. Beautiful place.

REKER

Thanks bro, Ill look in to Steamboat. Yeah, we are probably going to snowboard 4 or 5 of the 7 or so days so we would like to have the option of looking at other things to do.

killclimbz

Crested Butte if you want steeps and a real ski town. My favorite resort in Colorado.

Steamboat, not so steep, great snow, and a real ski town. Still has some good underrated steeps on the North side.

Summit County for lot's of variety. Copper, Breck, A-Basin, Keystone, Loveland, and Vail are all within spitting distance of each other.

Wolf Creek if you want pow.

lostintention

Yeah I'd say check out Steamboat. Not only the runs really nice, but the place has an awesome atmosphere about it, definately worth checking out..

BurtonAvenger

Man sounds like there's a bunch of Steamboat Fan Boys that haven't really been to Steamboat. I live right on the resort and I can tell you its nothing special in fact its ungodly flat. Steepest pitch is only something like 32 degrees and thats in Chute 2 so thats about 300 feet of a pitch at that degree. Last year it was unseasonably warm and thus there wasn't much good snow. The lift ticket prices are rediculous too. The town isn't even that great I swear the people that say its great only see the touristy parts of town which is just ski time square. So FYI Ski Time is getting leveled and most of the "touristy" spots of town are going bye bye and the towns turning into Aspen.

Honestly the best bang for the buck is to stay in Summit county and do a day at Loveland, A basin, Keystone, Breck, and Copper.

richedie

I have been tinking about a Wolf Creek trip....but is it worth it for a week? Enough good terrain and snow? maybe I could visit Telluride one day.

Heard great things about Silverton Mountain and also Irwin Lodge!

REKER

My plans changed. Instead im going to Killington for a week +. Im saving up to possibly go to New Zealand the season after, since I will have graduated.

killclimbz

Telluride would be a 3 plus hour drive from Wolf Creek

Irwin Lodge is closed. Sled access only day trips, do it yourself style.

Silverton is 2 plus hours from Wolfcreek. Self guided early and late season. High season, you have to be in a guided group. Steep for sure and they do get a lot of snow.

Get bored at Wolf Creek? Maybe, you'd definitely ride all the terrain available. You would also get to know the mountain and probably find stashes you like. Alberta peak is supposed to have some fun hike to terrain. If you really got bored, you could rent a split board or snowshoes, strap on a beacon, and do some of the backcountry off the pass. Amazing stuff back there.

richedie

What would be the better 5 day trip, Wolf Creek or Silvertone Mountain?

I like to get the most bang for the buck on trips, try to find places that are not too crowded, get lots of snow, and have some sort of town or city atmosphere in the area. For this reason, we tended to go to Salt Lake Sity, Tahoe or Whistler in the past. I am tempted to do a Seattle trip as well.